You can safely e merge to sit with magenta tulips ,
orange day lilies shouting
Category: Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Little World / After a Series of Rejections
Carol Amber
by Kate Kingston
Runner Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
She pours us tea, one that claims
to detoxify, to soothe the throat. Honey
dissolves in the agitated swirl
Terrorists
by Donald Levering
Runner Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
God don’t let that be
my bombshell daughter naked
in a sleeping bag on a public bench